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Vandals covered the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro with spray-painted graffiti, marring the monument in an act Rio’s mayor called a “crime against the nation.”
The vandals covered the head, arms and chest of the 130-foot statue, which sits atop the 2,300-foot Corcovado mountain, using scaffolding that had been erected to carry out maintenance work. Phrases scrawled on the statue included
“When the cat’s away, the rats will play,” as well as what appeared to be references to Rio residents who were killed or who disappeared in recent crimes, the newspaper O Globo reported
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